"The more than $4 million investment in the new printing plant, which company executives say will increase the range of offerings while lowering its production cost, is a contrarian bet on the future of a medium that has seen its financial underpinnings collapse because of the internet and smartphones," Lippman reports.
The move will mean some changes: the size of the paper will narrow a bit and the type will be smaller, to conform with most newspapers today. The paper will need to be put to bed by 10:30 p.m. instead of midnight to make sure all 13,000 papers can be printed and trucked in by delivery time. And because of that earlier deadline, more late-breaking news and sports scores will be published on the paper's website, Lippman reports.
The increased reliance on digital publishing could be challenging, since only one-thirteenth of Valley News subscribers are digital-only, Lippman reports. The paper's new editor, Maggie Cassidy, may be able to help expand the paper's online presence; her digital savvy was part of the reason she was hired.
Click below for a poignant retrospective from longtime Valley News press manager Jason Libbey:
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